Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian and Zhu Zhuqing parted ways after sharing breakfast and discussing their plans. His encouragement to follow her heart and live for herself left Zhu Zhuqing resolved to remember his words as she traveled to Suotuo City.

• Yang Jian packed away the tent and asked Zhu Zhuqing where she planned to go.
• Zhu Zhuqing said she was heading to Suotuo City, while Yang Jian planned to hunt for his fourth Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yang Jian reassured Zhu Zhuqing that they might meet again and praised her resilience.
• Yang Jian told Zhu Zhuqing she was not anyone's appendage and urged her to follow her heart, fulfill her wishes, and live for herself.
• Zhu Zhuqing promised to remember his words, and Yang Jian said goodbye, hoping to see her smile when they met again.

After sharing a tender farewell with Zhu Zhuqing, Yang Jian returned to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek his fourth Soul Ring. Reflecting on the Breaking Clan’s legacy, he gained a new understanding of the word “breaking” and appeared to have an epiphany.

• Zhu Zhuqing kissed Yang Jian on the cheek, promised she would follow her heart, and left for Suotuo City.
• Yang Jian spent nearly three days traveling back to the Star Dou Great Forest without his grandfather.
• While resting beneath the stars, Yang Jian considered his grandfather’s teachings about the Breaking Clan and wondered whether “breaking” meant “meaning.”
• Yang Jian practiced spear forms beneath the moon and watched a meteor streak across the sky.
• The meteor inspired Yang Jian to envision a silver spear piercing the darkness, and a brilliant sensation surged through him as he opened his eyes and moved.

Yang Jian completed the second move of his self-created spear art, Flying Star, and left the devastation behind in the Star Dou Great Forest. Xue Qinghe and two Title Douluo inspected the scene, mistook Yang Jian for a newly advanced Soul Saint, and departed without learning his true age or strength.

• Yang Jian hurled his spear through the forest in a fiery strike that felled trees and drove nearby Soul Beasts away.
• Yang Jian named the move Flying Star, retrieved his spear, and left to avoid attracting trouble.
• Xue Qinghe, Ci Xue, and She Long arrived at the ruins and examined the destruction.
• She Long estimated that the attacker was at least a Soul Saint, and Xue Qinghe called the unknown person talented.
• Xue Qinghe and the two Title Douluo left, unaware that Yang Jian was a twelve-year-old Quasi-Soul Ancestor without a fourth Soul Ring.

Yang Jian followed the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear's pull into the Star Dou Great Forest's Mixed Zone, where he found a veteran mercenary squad battling a strange, twenty-thousand-year-old Soul Beast. He watched from concealment as the five Soul Kings struggled to damage it and noticed the three flying-type fighters were avoiding the air.

• Yang Jian avoided Soul Master mercenary groups while traveling deeper into the forest, killing those who attacked him.
• The Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear stirred and directed Yang Jian southeast, drawing him toward sounds of battle.
• Yang Jian climbed a tree and used his Heavenly Eye to observe five mercenary Soul Kings fighting a massive, one-eyed, one-winged Soul Beast.
• Yang Jian recognized the creature's unusual form as resembling the extinct Bi-Wing Bird and saw that the Soul Beast shrugged off the fighters' attacks.
• Yang Jian noticed the three flying-type Soul Kings were fighting on the ground instead of using their aerial advantage.

Yang Jian realized the Bi-Wing Bird’s domain prevented flying and watched it kill two Soul Kings after three others escaped. The beast pursued the survivors in Yang Jian’s direction.

• Yang Jian detected that the Bi-Wing Bird’s domain suppressed anything trying to fly and recognized its potential as a domain-type Soul Beast.
• The Bi-Wing Bird’s piercing cry injured the three flying-type Soul Kings and intensified its domain, forcing them to retreat beyond its range.
• The three flying-type Soul Kings regained their ability to fly and fled, abandoning the injured defense-type and healing-type Soul Kings.
• The Bi-Wing Bird shattered the defense-type Soul King’s shield and killed him, then struck down the healing-type Soul King with a beam from its eye.
• The Bi-Wing Bird pursued the fleeing Soul Kings, heading directly toward Yang Jian.

Yang Jian waited as three fleeing Soul Kings tried to use him as bait for the pursuing Bi-Wing Bird. He shattered the female Soul King's illusion with his Heavenly Eye, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Yang Jian stood his ground as the Eagle-Wing Soul King, Bat Wings Soul King, and butterfly-winged female Soul King fled from the Bi-Wing Bird.
• The two male Soul Kings considered sacrificing the female Soul King, but she spotted Yang Jian ahead and proposed using him to distract the pursuer.
• The three Soul Kings charged past Yang Jian, dismissing him as a weak Soul Ancestor and planning to leave him in the Bi-Wing Bird's path.
• As she passed, the female Soul King unleashed her Dream Butterfly Illusion Mist, expecting it to stun Yang Jian for five seconds.
• Yang Jian opened his Heavenly Eye and destroyed the illusion butterflies with a burst of spiritual power.

Yang Jian used his Soul Skills and Primordial Spear Art to kill the twenty-thousand-year Bi-Wing Bird, then began absorbing its Soul Ring. He had little Soul Power left, and the Soul Ring’s violent energy surged into his body.

• Yang Jian activated his Domination Domain and Terrorclaw Sky-Rending as the Bi-Wing Bird charged at him.
• Yang Jian unleashed the first form of the Primordial Spear Art, Follow the Waves, splitting the Bi-Wing Bird in two and cutting a long ravine through the forest.
• Yang Jian checked the area with his Heavenly Eye and confirmed the three fleeing Soul Kings were beyond his range.
• Yang Jian pierced the Bi-Wing Bird’s black Soul Ring with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear and began absorbing its power.
• The Soul Ring’s surge of Soul Power carried the Bi-Wing Bird’s savagery and killing intent into Yang Jian’s body.

Yang Jian endured the Bi-Wing Bird’s Soul Power as he stood amid the ruins, while the three fleeing Soul Kings stopped and wondered why they heard no battle behind them. Lost Butterfly revealed that her heightened spiritual power had detected no hidden Soul Masters, leaving open the possibility that Yang Jian faced the Bi-Wing Bird alone.

• Yang Jian resisted the Bi-Wing Bird’s soul shock as its Soul Power battered his body and his first three Soul Rings began to spin.
• Blood Eagle, Miles, and Lost Butterfly fled several thousand meters through the forest before stopping to listen for signs of a fight.
• Miles detected no sounds or Soul Power collisions behind them, and Blood Eagle questioned why the area had gone quiet.
• Blood Eagle speculated that hidden guards had defeated the Bi-Wing Bird, since he believed Yang Jian could not have done so alone.
• Lost Butterfly said her fifth Soul Skill had raised her spiritual power to the Soul Emperor realm, but she had detected no other Soul Masters nearby and thought Yang Jian was probably alone.

Blood Eagle and his companions decided to wait half an hour before returning to attack Yang Jian, hoping his trump card would have worn off. Meanwhile, Yang Jian continued absorbing the Bi-Wing Bird's Soul Ring, which was already a third smaller.

• Lost Butterfly suggested that the young man might be unguarded but possess a trump card capable of defeating the Twenty-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Blood Eagle recalled Yang Jian's calm expression and suspected he had dealt with the Bi-Wing Bird.
• Miles urged the group to return and claim the beast's remains, but Blood Eagle insisted they wait until Yang Jian's power had faded.
• Blood Eagle and his companions planned to ambush Yang Jian after half an hour and take his treasures.
• Yang Jian continued absorbing the Bi-Wing Bird's Soul Ring amid the wreckage, and the ring had shrunk by a third.

Yang Jian absorbed the Bi-Wing Bird's twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring, reached level forty-three, and gained a domain that forbade flight within one hundred meters regardless of level. After finding a mysterious pearl inside the beast's skull and storing it, he faced Blood Eagle and two approaching companions, as Blood Eagle charged to kill him and claim the treasure.

• Yang Jian completed absorbing the Bi-Wing Bird's Soul Ring, broke through to Soul Ancestor, and advanced to level forty-three.
• Yang Jian learned that his fourth Soul Skill, the No-Fly Domain, could prevent anyone within one hundred meters from flying, even a Title Douluo.
• Yang Jian's Heavenly Eye sensed something unusual in the Bi-Wing Bird's skull, and he split it open to find a patterned amber-colored pearl.
• Blood Eagle attacked Yang Jian with a blood-red wind blade and demanded that he surrender the pearl, but Yang Jian blocked the strike with his spear and stored the pearl in his Soul Tool.
• Blood Eagle flew toward Yang Jian and ordered Miles to attack with him.

Yang Jian revealed his extraordinary Soul Rings and used his fourth Soul Ring to ground Blood Eagle and Miles before vaporizing them with his spear. Lost Butterfly fled into the forest, but Yang Jian locked onto her with his Heavenly Eye and hurled his spear after her.

• Blood Eagle and Miles charged Yang Jian while Lost Butterfly lagged behind them.
• Yang Jian revealed three ten-thousand-year Soul Rings and activated No-Fly, sending Blood Eagle and Miles crashing to the ground.
• Yang Jian killed Blood Eagle and Miles with the first form of the Primordial Spear Art, Follow the Waves.
• Lost Butterfly fled into the forest, and Yang Jian tracked her with his Heavenly Eye.
• Yang Jian hurled his spear at Lost Butterfly with the second form of the Primordial Spear Art, Flying Star.

Yang Jian killed Lost Butterfly with the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear, then absorbed the Orb into his Heavenly Eye using spiritual power. After awakening, he discovered that his open Heavenly Eye let him see clearly in the dark.

• Yang Jian killed Lost Butterfly with the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear and retrieved it as it returned to his hand.
• Yang Jian stopped in a safe place and examined the Orb he had taken from the Bi-Wing Bird.
• Yang Jian found that Soul Power had no effect on the Orb, but his spiritual power awakened it and drew it into his Heavenly Eye.
• Yang Jian entered a deep, trance-like state as seven-colored light shone from his Heavenly Eye.
• Yang Jian awoke at midnight and realized he could see the forest as clearly as if it were daytime.
• Yang Jian closed his Heavenly Eye and watched the forest return to darkness.

Yang Jian discovered that his Heavenly Eye could see in the dark and unleash a powerful, nearly cost-free spiritual attack. After the attack instantly killed a five-thousand-year Datura Snake, he recognized the ability as a concealed combat trump card.

• Yang Jian opened his Heavenly Eye and realized it gave him night vision without needing to release spiritual power.
• A five-thousand-year Datura Snake emerged from the bushes and prepared to attack Yang Jian.
• As Yang Jian began summoning the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear, his Heavenly Eye fired a streak of golden light that destroyed the snake's head.
• Yang Jian examined the corpse and determined that the instant spiritual attack used very little spiritual power.
• Yang Jian closed his Heavenly Eye and considered the attack, along with his night vision, a valuable gift from Bi-Wing Bird.

On his way back from the Star Dou Great Forest, Yang Jian discovered a forty-thousand-year Phantom Begonia trapping a group of Soul Emperors in a Mental Domain. He found three women protected by a failing spiritual barrier, leaving them in imminent danger.

• Yang Jian set out through the Star Dou Great Forest after recovering his strength and completing his Soul Ring hunt.
• Yang Jian sensed a subtle Mental Domain and cautiously probed it with his Heavenly Eye.
• Yang Jian saw seven Soul Emperors slaughtering one another under the Phantom Begonia's illusion.
• Yang Jian recognized the Phantom Begonia as a rare spiritual-type Soul Beast and estimated it was around forty thousand years old.
• Yang Jian saw a woman in white shielding two younger women with a spiritual barrier that was steadily weakening.

Yang Jian sensed Ye Nishang, Ye Lingling, and a pink-haired girl trapped in a forty-thousand-year Phantom Begonia’s Mental Domain. The girl shielded Ye Lingling so Ye Nishang could attack the beast, while Yang Jian decided to intervene after noticing the girl’s unusual Soul Power.

• The Phantom Begonia absorbed the fallen Soul Emperors and intensified its mental attacks on Ye Nishang as she tried to retreat with Ye Lingling.
• The pink-haired girl urged Ye Nishang to attack the Phantom Begonia’s main body while it was occupied controlling the Soul Emperors.
• Ye Nishang hesitated because leaving would expose Ye Lingling to the Mental Domain, but the girl revealed her own Phantom Begonia Martial Soul and raised a mental barrier around Ye Lingling.
• With Ye Lingling protected, Ye Nishang agreed to attack the Phantom Begonia and advanced toward it with her dagger.
• Yang Jian withdrew his Heavenly Eye perception, noticed the pink-haired girl’s unusual Soul Power, and stepped forward to help the trapped group.

Yang Jian resisted the Phantom Begonia’s illusions as Ye Nishang reached the plant but found herself unable to strike it, overcome by its sorrow. The pink-haired girl warned that her failing barrier was putting both her and Ye Lingling in danger, leaving Ye Nishang facing the threat to her daughter.

• Yang Jian used his Heavenly Eye’s spiritual power to break through the Phantom Begonia’s illusions and hurry toward Ye Nishang.
• Ye Nishang approached the Phantom Begonia and raised her dagger, but its sorrowful spiritual fluctuations stopped her from striking.
• The pink-haired girl urged Ye Nishang to act and warned that the barrier protecting her and Ye Lingling was cracking.
• The pink-haired girl told Ye Nishang that Ye Lingling would be in danger if the barrier failed, and Ye Nishang turned to see her daughter struggling.

Yang Jian stopped Ye Nishang from stabbing what she believed was Phantom Begonia and used his Heavenly Eye to reveal that it was actually her daughter, Ye Lingling. Ye Nishang realized how close she had come to killing her daughter, while Ye Lingling collapsed unconscious.

• Ye Nishang resolved to stab Phantom Begonia to break its mental domain and save the mercenaries and her daughter.
• Yang Jian appeared and seized Ye Nishang's wrist, stopping her dagger just short of Phantom Begonia's flower core.
• Yang Jian questioned whether Ye Nishang was truly seeing Phantom Begonia, then used his Heavenly Eye to shatter the illusion.
• Ye Nishang saw that her dagger was aimed at Ye Lingling's heart and dropped it in horror.
• Yang Jian caught the trembling Ye Nishang as Ye Lingling lost consciousness and fell to the ground.

Yang Jian revealed that Phantom Begonia had trapped Ye Nishang in an illusion and nearly made her kill her daughter, Ye Lingling. After confirming she was awake by cutting her own arm, Ye Nishang attacked Phantom Begonia, leaving the flower struggling from her dagger strike.

• Yang Jian explained that Phantom Begonia had disguised itself as a pink-haired girl and used an illusion to make Ye Nishang believe the mercenaries were fighting and that she was approaching a Soul Beast.
• Ye Nishang saw the seven mercenaries’ corpses arranged like puppets and recognized that the pink-haired girl had been Phantom Begonia.
• Ye Nishang realized that her daughter’s anguish had broken through the illusion and stopped her from killing Ye Lingling.
• Ye Nishang picked up her dagger and approached Phantom Begonia, but paused to ask Yang Jian whether he was an illusion.
• Ye Nishang cut her left arm to confirm that she was awake, then drove her dagger into Phantom Begonia’s flower core.

Ye Nishang killed the Phantom Begonia and gained a chance to claim its Soul Ring and Soul Bone, but she rushed to heal her unconscious daughter instead. Ye Lingling's body recovered, yet she did not wake, leaving Ye Nishang panicked and exhausted as she continued pouring in healing power.

• Ye Nishang watched the Phantom Begonia wither and die, and a forty-thousand-year Soul Ring and a Soul Bone appeared among its remains.
• Ye Nishang left the Soul Ring and Soul Bone untouched and hurried to check on Ye Lingling.
• Ye Nishang used her Nine-Heart Begonia to heal Ye Lingling until her breathing and complexion returned to normal.
• Ye Lingling remained unconscious despite her restored condition, and Ye Nishang grew panicked.
• Already exhausted from the battle, Ye Nishang kept increasing her healing power because she feared stopping would leave her daughter unable to wake.

Yang Jian reassured Ye Nishang that Ye Lingling was recovering from mental exhaustion and urged Ye Nishang to absorb the Phantom Begonia Soul Ring. Ye Nishang advanced to Soul Saint and reached Level seventy-two, while Ye Lingling began to wake.

• Yang Jian explained that Ye Lingling was physically unharmed and needed rest rather than more healing power.
• Yang Jian offered to watch over Ye Lingling while Ye Nishang absorbed the Soul Ring.
• Ye Nishang absorbed the Phantom Begonia's forty-thousand-year Soul Ring and broke through to Soul Saint, rising to Level seventy-two.
• Ye Nishang thanked Yang Jian as Ye Lingling stirred and showed signs of waking.